Kelly Ripa playing matchmaker for Shannen Doherty

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Shannen Doherty is looking for love and hopes Kelly Ripa helps her find it.

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On the latest episode of her podcast Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 52, revealed that the morning TV host offered to set her up after she appeared on Live with Kelly and Mark.

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“Kelly is awesome because I just saw her when I did her show and at the commercial break, she was like, ‘Are you ready? Are you ready to date? Are you ready for a boyfriend? I’m going to find you someone,’” she recalled [per PEOPLE].

Ripa, 53, then questioned Doherty about her must-haves in a partner. “She started asking me, ‘Like what’s your list? What do you need?’ She was like, ‘Oh, I think I got somebody in mind.’”

The Charmed alum — who has been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer — said that she’s confident that Ripa can help her find a partner.

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“I was like, dude, just text me and you can,” Doherty added. “You’re 100% the right person to start setting me up. I’m fine with that.”

In a November interview with PEOPLE, Doherty said she was open to finding love again after she and her third husband Kurt Iswarienko split in April.

“I was not ready at all before three weeks ago,” she said at the time. “And something happens. There’s always a trigger, just a moment that you have, somebody says something to you, your ex says one thing to you and you’re like, ‘Okay, yeah, I’m good. I’m good.’ I have closure and I can move on in a really healthy way.”

On the debut episode of her iHeart Radio podcast in December, Doherty lifted the lid on her surprise split from Iswarienko, telling listeners she found out he had been unfaithful “for two years” just before she went under the knife to remove a brain tumour.

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“I went into that surgery early in the morning and I went in after I found out that my marriage was essentially over, that my husband had been carrying on an affair for two years,” she said [per PEOPLE]. “To not go in that surgery, even though, being very clear, he wanted to go, I couldn’t go into that surgery with him there. I felt so betrayed.”

Doherty said she was incredibly afraid to undergo the procedure, calling it “the most frightening thing I have ever been through in my entire life.”

“I didn’t think I was going to make it. I was positive that I was gonna die,” she said.

The revelation left her feeling “incredibly unloved” by her husband, who she had been with for over a decade.

“At the end of the day, I just felt so incredibly unloved by someone I was with for 14 years, by someone I loved with all my heart,” Doherty said.

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She said she became “obsessed” with finding out why Iswarienko was romancing another woman behind her back.

“If you share 14 years together and you cheated, doesn’t that person deserve the absolute truth regardless of how much that hurts them? If they’re the ones asking for it, if they’re the ones saying, ‘Listen, I get it, I may cry, I may get angry, and this may really suck to hear, but I need to hear it because I need closure and this is how I get my closure.’ So I had a lot of months of trying to figure out what I was going to do.”

Doherty was previously married to Ashley Hamilton from 1993 to 1994, and Rick Salomon from 2002 to 2003.

Even though Iswarienko’s deception shattered her, the actress said she struggled with the decision to file for divorce, and added that she spoke with the “girlfriend of two years that he cheated on me with.”

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“It’s still really hard. Yes, I made the decision to file for divorce, but I have a lot of memories with this person,” Doherty shared. But she maintained she wasn’t to blame for their split.

“I do not take responsibility for the demise of our marriage, I take responsibility for some of the issues in our marriage,” she explained. “I take responsibility not only because of how I was but because of how cancer impacted my marriage and how it impacted him the second time around.”

Speaking to PEOPLE in November, Doherty said she didn’t think she was “going to be single forever.”

“I have to love myself and reckon with the past, really, before I can move forward, and now I’m pretty sure I’ll meet somebody — hopefully soon.”

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